Tae-Ung Baik

Tae-Ung Baik

Associate Professor of Law and Director of SJD Program at William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii

Mr. Tae-Ung Baik, of Republic of Korea, is Associate Professor of Law and Director of SJD Program at William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He teaches international protection of human rights, international human rights advocacy, and comparative law. Before joining the law school, he taught at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia as Assistant Professor and Director of the Korean Legal Studies program. He worked for Human Rights Watch in New York as a research intern and consultant, and served at the 56th United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights as a legal adviser to the delegation of Republic of Korea. Mr. Baik was engaged in the democracy movement in the Republic of Korea in the 1980s-90s, and had advised several human rights organizations. He serves as an editorial board member of law journals, and published a number of articles on human rights and transitional justice issues. He is the author of the book, Emerging Regional Human Rights Systems in Asia (2012).

Mr. Baik graduated from Seoul National University College of Law. He earned his master (LLM) and doctoral (JSD) degrees on international human rights law from Notre Dame Law School. He had conducted research as a visiting scholar at East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard University Law School. Mr. Baik was admitted to the Bar as an attorney-at-law in the State of New York.